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What's the (free speech) deal with Canada?
Canada is steadily transforming free expression from a right into a privilege — one that regulators, tribunals, and government officials can withdraw…
 • Adam Goldstein and Greg Lukianoff
Thomas Paine deserves more love
As America approaches its 250th birthday, let’s raise a glass to the most underappreciated radical of the Founding generation.
 • Matthew Harwood
New study confirms the right — and the center — have nearly disappeared from faculty politics
That is not just a campus culture-war problem. It is a knowledge-creation problem.
 • Greg Lukianoff
What Jonathan Haidt actually said at NYU — and what The Coddling of the American Mind actually argued
Responses to seven arguments against me, Jon, and our book from people who didn’t seem to read it
 • Greg Lukianoff
Kimmel and Comey: If it looks like an attempt to chill speech by Trump, it probably is
A painfully long list of previous examples of Trumpworld flexing its muscle against clearly protected speech
 • Greg Lukianoff
‘Pick Your Ten’: The best advice I ever got in my life
I used to think FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate’s wise words were only useful for people trapped in the middle of the culture war. But now we all…
 • Greg Lukianoff
Plato, ‘Gender Ideology,’ and the Efficient Rhetorical Fortress
The Texas A&M mess and what that little story says about the New Right’s comfort with censorship
 • Greg Lukianoff
Me in the NYT: Play-Doh, Plato, and the 'Form of the Dumb'
Texas lawmakers are dragging the classics into the culture war—and the academy back into the cave
 • Greg Lukianoff
FIRE brass and I answer member questions!
Watch us discuss freedom of the press, J. Ann Selzer, Indiana University, Charlie Kirk, and more.
 • Greg Lukianoff
In the NYT today: The story of the ex-cop who spent more than a month in jail over a meme
In my 25 years defending free speech, I have seen a lot of overreach. I have never seen anything quite like this.
 • Greg Lukianoff
Defending our ‘terrible business model’
As we come to the end of a challenging year, supporting FIRE’s nonpartisan defense of free speech is more important than ever.
 • Greg Lukianoff
Speaking at the site of a murder
My speech at Utah Valley University — and why America must not become like everybody else
 • Greg Lukianoff
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